HELBIONET is the Hellenic Network for Biodiversity Research. The Network has been funded by the Greek General Secretariat of Research and Technology (GSRT) in order to design the construction and implementation of the national node as the Greek contribution to the European Infrastructure of LIFEWATCH (ESFRI, FP7).

The third HELBIONET e-conference with subject "Network for biodiversity database development: tool of great utility" will be open for contributions from 18th to 23rd of June 2010 at the following link: http://www.helbionet.org/forum/5.

Dr Christos Arvanitidis presented the HELBIONET project during his talk on Marine Ecosystem Biodiversity for the meeting "Biodiversity: the comparative advantage of Greece". The meeting was organised on the 3rd of June 2010 by the Environment Council of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki for the World Environment Day 2010. Please see the attached letter.

The results from the discussions held during the second e-conference on "Community Ecology in Greek Terrestrial and Aquatic Environment" that took place on the HELBIONET site from 3rd to 8th of May are summarised by Dr Nina Fraggopoulou and are now available bellow.